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thursday - september 18, 2025.

SITE UPDATES: updated the comic.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: this week I received a kind message on my guestbook from Nyx, one of my OG zine friends. she writes:
I am perpetually late to everything... However, I love your site! Love the vibes, the feel the comics. All the good stuff. All the best wishes for your adventures.

heya, Nyx. thank you for your kind guestbook signature. I made myself sit down and finish the newest comic so I could post it at the same time as this response, so your words really matter! I hope the site will be even cooler when you come back. you know, I’m sure we’ve all experienced a time when we were scrolling back on someone’s IG and somewhere in the feed our thumb hit a photo twice in rapid succession, and, oh, shit, we just liked a photo from 9 years (!) ago and now they’re going to get a notification and know we were scrolling back too far on this public record of the events of their life that they chose to share and that’s so embarrassing. everything we post on social media stays out there, but also has the briefest lifespan and then we’re all supposed to move on to the next thing.

I’m hoping to build this website out so that there’s more stuff on it than anyone could look through in one sitting. I think it’d be cool if visitors felt like they had a good reason to come back. while cleaning out my classrooms and my desk last spring, it struck me that I felt like my legacy was my students’ work, and I didn’t have much of my own work to point to. how do you update your resume when you don’t know how to talk about yourself anymore? compiling projects from multiple social media accounts is helping me figure out how to talk about myself as someone other than a teacher or former teacher, and creating the place where all the creations converge is more fun than I remember.

so we don’t need to worry about lateness on this website. there’s no pressure to keep current and no shame in scrolling all the way back. I’ll keep adding to it and it’ll be here when you’re ready to come back. my inspiration for the vibe is the liminal dusk (or dawn) creeping over the back yard. the wee hours when I would be up coding because I was old enough to set my own bedtime but not responsible enough to make myself study and complete homework. not much has changed. part of what I enjoy playing with here is the way time spirals and overlaps. I know the versions of myself who did exactly this same thing in my teens and twenties. can this get me closer to the versions of myself who continue in the future?

love,
allie

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current music: Jens Lekman - Candy From A Stranger

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